If a person commited a burglary and a more serious crime (like homicide, abduction or rape) at the same time, how the crime was usually recorded at files?
As a burglary?
As the more serious crime?
As both of them?
Yes, as the more serious crime. But this is changing right now, and statistics begin to emerge.
Burglars turning to murder & sexual crimes is a well documented phenomenon .
Between 31.5% to 45% of sexually motivated serial killers have a history of burglary. It's simply a distressing fact of life.
http://www.jaapl.org/content/27/2/227.full.pdfAnd if you include such crimes as rape, the burglary escalation figure is even more frightening.
When DNA from a no-suspect murder scene is checked against records in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)3, it often matches DNA from a no-suspect burglary. Review of the State’s first 1,000 hits showed that the vast majority were linked to crimes like homicide and rape, but of these,
82 percent of the offenders were already in the databank as a result of a prior conviction for a “lesser” crime such as burglary or drugs.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/207203.pdfThanks to Mobyra for these important references.